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"Aback" in a Sentence (19 examples)
I was taken aback at the shadow.
I was taken aback at the answer.
Walter was taken aback by John's cruel insult.
I was taken aback by the news.
I was taken aback by his rudeness.
I was taken aback by a thunderclap.
When I first met him, I was taken aback by his unexpected question.
I was quite taken aback at their bad manners.
I was completely taken aback by her reasoning.
When I had just arrived in Switzerland, I was completely taken aback by the prices.
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The mild, though licentious reign, of Louis the Sixteenth, threw France far aback, in her ambitious career; but it gave birth to that revolution, wherein, her warlike propensities and territorial resources were unfolded with tenfold efficacy.
Then stopped, and bounded aback, and away as if in fear, / That I saw her no more; then I wondered though sitting close anear / Was a she-wolf great and grisly.
hoyed aback o' the fire
There are so many canes upon Reliance that the labourers could not cut those aback, as they prefer cutting those in front. The cane fields aback were in cultivation last year.
I would rather board a hundred of the enemy's frigates, than steer my boat into a fleet of modest women, for a modest woman never fails to take me aback.
Q. Was not the Trident at that time aback with one or more Top-sails? A. To the best of my Knowledge she had both Top-sails aback.
As the anchor fetches her up, she will swing head to wind, bringing the head sails aback.
Then the sails on the mainmast were backing and we started getting stern way. Eagle was caught aback.
In the Centre, or midst of the Pegm, there was an Aback, or Square, wherein this Elogy was written.
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